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Safety | 111 |
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Checking the Equipment | 112 |
Troubleshooting IRQ Assignment Conflicts | 112 |
Troubleshooting External Connections | 112 |
Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem | 113 |
Troubleshooting the Keyboard | 113 |
Troubleshooting the Mouse | 114 |
Troubleshooting Basic I/O Functions | 114 |
Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device | 115 |
Troubleshooting a USB Device | 115 |
Troubleshooting a NIC | 116 |
Troubleshooting a Wet System | 116 |
Troubleshooting a Damaged System | 117 |
Troubleshooting the System Battery | 118 |
Troubleshooting Power Supplies | 118 |
Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems | 119 |
Troubleshooting a Fan | 119 |
Troubleshooting System Memory | 120 |
Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive | 121 |
Troubleshooting an Optical Drive | 123 |
Troubleshooting an External SCSI Tape Drive | 123 |
Troubleshooting a Hard Drive | 124 |
Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card | 126 |
Troubleshooting Expansion Cards | 127 |
Troubleshooting the Microprocessors | 128 |
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